Railway-car.



No. 748,030. PATENTED DEG. 29, 1903. C. VANDBRBILT.

RAILWAY GAB..

APPLIQATvIoN FILED 11513.17, 1902.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 29, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,030, dated December 29, 1903.

l Application led February 17 1902. Serial No. 94,410. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 4

Be it known that LCoRNELIUs VANDERBILT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan,city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway- Cars, of which the following is a full and true de- 4scription.

rials, but may include pressed metal or any l other suitable material. A

I have shown my invention as embodied in a gondola car; but it is not limited to this form of car, as obviously the structure herein described and claimed may be used in fiatcars, box-cars, &c., the appended claims defining the actual scope of'the invention.

Certain features of frame construction which appear in the car herein shown and described are broadly claimed in an application led by me on the 17th day of February,A

1902, Serial No. 94,411.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view, partly in section, of one half of the car, a portion of the Jiooring being broken away. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the flooring, however, being in position; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The description being confined to that half of the car which is illustrated, it will be understood that the other half is similar in all essential particulars to that which is shown.

The supporting-framework of this car, as well as the car shown in application Serial No. 94,411, comprises two longitudinal center sills 1 1, which are securely united at their ends by the bolster-pieces 3. These channels face inward, and to their iiat outer faces or backs at the bolsters' are secured the bent 5, which may be channels, as shown.

Vholsters to the ends ,of the car.

l and 4, and preferably secured thereto by the angle-bars 6 and 7, are two transverse beams Only one of these beams is shown, the other one being correspondingly situated in that half of the carwhich is not shown. These beams act as struts between the truss members l and 4.

The structure up to this point is the same as in the application previously referred to, the present invention relating to the features hereinafter described.

Secured to the ends of the transverse beams 5 are uprights 8. These uprights support the side sills 2 2, to which they are secured. In

.the case of a box-car or gondola car the uprights, which may be angle-bars, as shown, may extend above the side sills, preferably to the top of the car, and serve the additional purpose of supporting and stiening the side walls 9 9. The I-beams 3', which form part of the bolster, the channels 10, to which the dropbottoms 25' are hinged, and the center licor-beam 17 are secured between the side sills 2 and center sillsl. The upper surfaces of all these parts form a plane surface, upon which the end Iioorplates 10' and side oorplates 27 are laid andV secured, as shown. The end floor-plates 10' are preferably of the full width of the car and extend from the The side Hoor-plates 27 are of a width equal to the distance from the center sills to the side sills and extend from the holsters to the channels l0 and between the said channels on each side of the car, as shown. The center plate 28 is secured to the center sills 1 1 above the side plat-es 27 and extends from holsteito bolster. The bolster-piece 3 comprises upper,

flanges 15 15, a central web 14, and a bearing 16. The Hooi-plates 10 and 27 are laid directly upon the parts 3 and 3', as previously described, and the bolster is completed by a cover-plate l1, secured above the floor-plates.

The side plates 9 are' secured to the side sills 2 and are stiffened and supported in the IOO usual manner by uprights 30 and 31 and the top flanged beam 12.

I do not desire to limit myself to the exact structure shown, but also include such obvious modifications thereof as will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a metallic car-frame, longitudinal center compression and tension members, transverse beams forming struts between said members, upright posts secured to the ends of said transverse beams and side sills secured to said upright posts, substantially as described.

'2. In a metallic car-frame, a longitudinal center truss, a transverse beam forming a strut for said truss and upright posts secured to the ends of said beam, substantially as described. 

